2021
Impact of Racial Disparities on All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Tumors of the Spinal Cord or Spinal Meninges: A Propensity-Score Analysis
Elsamadicy AA, Freedman I, Koo AB, David WB, Reeves BC, Hengartner A, Pennington Z, Laurans M, Kolb L, Shin JH, Sciubba D. Impact of Racial Disparities on All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Tumors of the Spinal Cord or Spinal Meninges: A Propensity-Score Analysis. Global Spine Journal 2021, 13: 1365-1373. PMID: 34318727, PMCID: PMC10416582, DOI: 10.1177/21925682211033827.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpinal cordCause mortalitySpinal meningesNonmalignant tumorsCox proportional hazards regression analysisProportional hazards regression analysisIntradural spine tumorsReceipt of RTOutcomes of patientsRetrospective cohort studyEnd Results registryKaplan-Meier methodOverall survival estimatesSpinal cord tumorsAssociation of survivalLog-rank testAfrican American patientsPopulation-based estimatesPropensity score analysisPropensity-score matchingCohort studyCord tumorsSpine tumorsWhite patientsAnalysis age
2020
Race and All-cause Mortality in Patients with a Primary Malignant or Nonmalignant Tumor of the Spinal Cord or Spinal Meninges
Elsamadicy A, Freedman I, Koo A, David W, Reeves B, Antonios J, Laurans M, Kolb L, Sciubba D. Race and All-cause Mortality in Patients with a Primary Malignant or Nonmalignant Tumor of the Spinal Cord or Spinal Meninges. Neurosurgery 2020, 67 DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyaa447_203.Peer-Reviewed Original Research